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Cyberspace”, which was held in Yakutsk, on 2-4 July 2008 and became Russia’s
contribution to the International Year of Languages.
Many universally renowned participants of the conference, held in such an
interesting place as Yakutia, found it the most significant of international
forums that gathered in the International Year of Languages at such a high level
of organization and content. The Government of Yakutia placed the conference
among its three greatest achievements of 2008, on a par with the Year of Family
and the Children of Asia international games.
The final document of the conference, known as the Lena Resolution, was one of
its major achievements. This landmark document – an appeal of the conference
to the host country and the world – emphasizes the importance of preserving
languages, in particular, for the implementation of the Recommendations of
the World Summit on the Information Society and for universal access to
information and knowledge.
The resolution advances initiatives for the development of linguistic and
cultural diversity in cyberspace – particularly the organization of a world
summit on linguistic diversity in cyberspace under the joint aegis of UNESCO
and the World Network for Linguistic Diversity (MAAYA). A set of measures is
proposed to preserve minority languages and cultural heritage. The resolution
stresses the necessity of drawing relevant programmes, and of improving
international, national and local policies in this sphere.
Yakutia’s fruitful activities for the preservation of linguistic and cultural
diversity earned enthusiastic appreciation by conference participants.
They asked the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to consider
the opportunity for establishing in Yakutia an expert centre for the study
and development of multilingualism in cyberspace and global exchange of
experience in that sphere.
A special two-day seminar on the problems and prospects of establishing such
a centre was held in Yakutsk on July 20-21, 2010. The seminar was organized
by the Russian Committee of UNESCO Information for All Programme,
the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, the North-Eastern Federal
University, the Council on Language Policy under the President of the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the National Library of the Republic of Sakha
(Yakutia) with the support of the UNESCO Moscow Office and the Ministry
of Culture and Spiritual Development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Evgeny Kuzmin, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council and Russian
Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, President of the
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